It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: Knife-Wielding Artist at Universal Theme Park Edition

By Robert Farago

Yesterday, I wrote about Disney disarmament 2.0. The post mentioned that the Universal Studios Orlando theme park was down with Disney on the whole guest wanding, metal detector thing. Let’s log today’s post under “be careful what you disarm for.” To wit: “A recently fired caricature artist at Universal Orlando Resort tried to kill his manager by stabbing him in the head and neck with scissors on New Year’s Day,” abcnews.go.com reports. Now let’s see how Universal dealt with the threat and the attack . . .

Frederick Torres, 33, was charged with attempted first-degree murder for his attack on Glenn Ferguson at the Islands of Adventure park. Both artists draw caricatures at Universal’s parks but work for an outside firm, Orlando-based Fasen Artists, Inc.

The general manager of the firm, Anthony Fasen, told detectives he had fired Torres the day before the attack. On New Year’s Day, Torres called Fasen, who said he reiterated that Torres was fired. Torres then said he was going to kill Ferguson, according to the police report.

“Fasen advised specifically that Torres had said, ‘I’m going to slit Glenn’s throat’ and ‘I’m going to kill your number one artist,’” the …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns